…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 3 PURELY COMMENTARY 4-10 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 12 Motor City Mission Memories Impressions of the Holy Land from a first-timer to Israel. 22 Life-Changing Trip How a trip to Israel changed the lives of two people served by JARC. 28 ADL: 2022 Antisemitic Incident Numbers Continue Troubling Trend The ADL has released its 2022 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents. 30 Passover Wine ...…
…30 | APRIL 6 • 2023 T he Passover seder is often celebrated with family and friends and, unlike other holidays, it is commonly done in individ- ual homes. Being outside of the synagogue, it impacts the communal feeling of a holiday that celebrates the freedom of our people. For this reason, Congregation Beth Ahm in West Bloomfield found a way to bring the synagogue to the seders of its members. The congregation organized an ini...…
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…32 | APRIL 6 • 2023 A n endless line of cars filled with smiles and a deep sense of gratefulness filled the grounds of Yad Ezra from March 26-27, as the Berkley-based food pantry held its annual distribution of food to clients for Passover. Looming large over this year’s distribution is the chal- lenge of rising food costs, which has affected everyone — including both Yad Ezra and its clients. But just as they did during the ...…
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 33 who has been to a few of their Passover distributions says the same. “For people like me that are low income, it’s a big relief that you can get a lot of goodies, where otherwise it would be more of a hard- ship if you had to buy every- thing,” the client said. “And it really does make you want to give back more, too, so I try to volunteer more when I can.” Sandra Eidelman, a long- time Yad Ezra volunteer, was h...…
…34 | APRIL 6 • 2023 S pring has sprung and it is time to get out there and help our won- derful community. This month, we highlight an awesome opportunity for teens, as well as a chance to relive one of the best nights of the high school experience. It is also time to start thinking about Mother’s Day — keep reading for a great way to celebrate your loved ones while supporting the women and children served by Jewish Family Service....…
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 35 S pring signals the coming of Israel’s 75th anniversary. In addition to cel- ebrations in Israel, the world will be celebrating across the diaspora, including right here in Metro Detroit. To keep track of the many planned cele- brations through the rest of the year, espe- cially this spring, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit is hosting a web page on JLive to serve as a one-stop shop for organiza- tions w...…
…36 | APRIL 6 • 2023 A nn Arbor’s Temple Beth Emeth and its Holocaust remembrance group Generations After are thrilled to welcome Ruth Messinger to Ann Arbor at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 15, to formally launch the Irene Butter Fund for Holocaust and Human Rights Education. Messinger’s topic is “The Fight for Human Rights: Past, Present and Future.” Whose rights have been protected and whose rights challenged throughout recent hi...…
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 37 F rom Sarah to Seinfeld: 4,000 Years of Jewish Humor” is the tagline for a very special event being held at Troy’s Congregation Shir Tikvah this month. Shir Tikvah is hosting Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg’s Comedy Show, an evening of laughs, food, fun and a silent auction fundraiser on Saturday, April 22, at 7 p.m. Rabbi Arnie will be delivering his stand-up comedy routine, which he’s also performed at Congrega...…
…38 | APRIL 6 • 2023 faces&places YEVGENIYA GAZMAN JOHN HARDWICK/FEDERATION JOHN HARDWICK/FEDERATION YEVGENIYA GAZMAN Motor City Mission Memories Motor City Mission participans had the time of their lives in Israel March 12-20. Here are a few more highlights! (See the story on page 12 for more). George McMillan takes a dip in the Dead Sea Jeff Aisen and Jonathan Arens say l’chaim! Marilyn Nathanson Yiftah Leket and Ye...…
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 39 YEVGENIYA GAZMAN JOHN HARDWICK/FEDERATION YEVGENIYA GAZMAN JOHN HARDWICK/FEDERATION JOHN HARDWICK/FEDERATION JOHN HARDWICK/FEDERATION Everyone danced to Hava Nagila Mission Chairs Lisa and Rich Broder with an IDF soldier Rabbi Mark Miller from Temple Beth El and Rabbi Michael Moskowitz from Temple Shir Shalom Yevgeniya Gazman and Joel Jackson Rabbi Simcha Tolwin from Aish Rabbi Paul and Wendy Yedwab …
…4 | APRIL 6 • 2023 for openers Will That Do? essay Israeli Women’s Key Role in History W e are all familiar with the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. A cynic once told me that it should read; Do unto others BEFORE they do unto you. Be that as it may, take note of how often our expres- sions rely on a key word, “Do.” Explain? Don’t mind if I do. As youngsters, we may have often heard that we s...…
…40 | APRIL 6 • 2023 W hen Cory Shanbom was 8 years old, his parents bought him a little video camera that made him fall in love with filmmak- ing. “I would make short sketches with my friends and neighbors, ” recalls the 26-year-old Jewish Hollywood producer, actor, writer and comedian, who originally hails from Bloomfield Hills. “I just loved watching movies and dissecting them. ” Shanbom, who is currently working on his larges...…
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 41 The Jewish Bar Association of Michigan (JBAM) will recognize the achievements of two revered judges at its annual awards banquet 6 p.m. Monday, May 22, at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham. Receiving the Avern Cohn Lifetime Achievement Award will be Judge Marla Parker of the 47th District Court in Farmington Hills. Judge Parker has been a longtime leading advocate for protecting those affected by domes- tic v...…
…42 | APRIL 6 • 2023 ERETZ W hile Detroiters of all faiths could run a marathon to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day a week early at the 40th Annual Corktown Race last month, a reported 40,000 participants, including 30,000 runners, took to the Holy City’s streets in the 12th annual International Jerusalem ‘Winner’ Marathon on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. Beginning in Sacher Park in the middle of the Israeli capital, the route passe...…
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 43 highest priority on assisting groups and populations in Jerusalem in need of support, according to the Marathon’s website. “Incorporating a social and communal dimension in the race gives added value to the runners’ experience,” Leon said. Rothstein, 40, has participated for 12 years. He made aliyah in 2007 with his wife, Leezie Strauss, who hails from Queens, New York. An occupational therapist at Orchaos ...…
…44 | APRIL 6 • 2023 J ack Chudler finished 33-7 this season as a member of the Orchard Lake St. Mary’s High School wrestling team. Sounds good, doesn’t it? Not good enough, in Chudler’s estimation. But it set him up for what could be a memorable senior season next year. Chudler wrestled in the Division 2 individual state meet last season as a sophomore. He lost both of his matches in the 135- pound division and finished the year wi...…
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 45 great season next year. I’m 100% confident of that. He knows now what it takes to not just be a state qualifier, but a state placer and an All-State wrestler (top in the top eight in the weight class).” Chudler said he’s definitely going to put in the time during the off-season. He’s even decided not to play lacrosse this spring for St. Mary’s to focus on wrestling. “I want to finish top four in the state next season...…
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…48 | APRIL 6 • 2023 P esach is a night of questions, but there is one we do not ask, and it is significant. Why was there a Pesach in the first place? Why the years of suffering and slavery? Israel was redeemed. It regained its freedom. It returned to the land its ances- tors had been promised cen- turies before. But why the necessity of exile? Why did God not arrange for Abraham or Isaac or Jacob simply to inherit the land...…
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 49 not be concerned about that great city?” Jonah 4:10-11 God teaches Jonah to care by giving him something and then taking it away. Loss teaches us to value things, though usually too late. What we have, and then lose, we do not take for granted. The religious vision is not about seeing things that are not there. It is about seeing the things that are there and always were, but which we never noticed or paid at...…
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…Synagogue Directory METRO DETROIT CONSERVATIVE Adat Shalom Synagogue Farmington Hills (248) 851-5100 adatshalom.org Congregation Beth Ahm West Bloomfield (248) 851-6880 cbahm.org Congregation Beth Shalom Oak Park (248) 547-7970 congbethshalom.org Beth Tephilath Moses Mt. Clemens (586) 996-3138 bethtephilathmoses.com B’nai Israel Synagogue West Bloomfield (248) 432-2729 bnaiisraelwb.org Congregation B’nai Moshe West Blo...…
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 51 Temple Emanu-El Oak Park (248) 967-4020 emanuel-mich.org Temple Israel West Bloomfield (248) 661-5700 temple-israel.org Temple Kol Ami West Bloomfield (248) 661-0040 tkolami.org Temple Shir Shalom West Bloomfield (248) 737-8700 shirshalom.org REFORM/RENEWAL Congregation Shir Tikvah Troy (248) 649-4418 shirtikvah.org SECULAR/HUMANISTIC Congregation for Humanistic Judaism of Metro Detroit Farmington H...…
…52 | APRIL 6 • 2023 Behind Curtain the Iron PHOTOS COURTESY JOHN SCHEINFELD/WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS …
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 53 ARTS&LIFE FILM B lood, Sweat & Tears’ controversial mid- 1970 concert tour behind the old Iron Curtain resonated differently for each of the nine members of the band. But the trip — the subject of the new documen- tary What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears — was certainly poignant for a group comprised primarily of young Jewish men. “Yeah, I was apprehensive,” says Steve Katz, the group’s founding guitarist...…
…ARTS&LIFE FILM 54 | APRIL 6 • 2023 was the rare band that straddled the generation gap, appealing to youth and to their parents, as comfortable at the first Woodstock festival in 1969 as it was in a Las Vegas showroom. A DEAL WAS MADE The so-called Iron Curtain Tour was pitched to the band with an insidious undertone. Its singer, David Clayton-Thomas — who’ d replaced Al Kooper in 1968 — was a Canadian citizen and about to lose ...…
…still assaulted and set dogs on fans who were too demonstrative. Poland was more uniform- ly positive, with a more sophisticated audience and concert facility. “The thing that really got to me was these people really loved what we did, and we made thousands of people very happy. That was our silver lining, ” Katz acknowledges. MAKING THE FILM The BS&T entourage — including other Jewish members Fred Lipsius, Lew Soloff and Jerry Hyman ...…
…56 | APRIL 6 • 2023 R ecording gear is kind of an unusual item on the wish list of an average adolescent. But the Webcor reel-to-reel machine Gary Rubin received as gift when he was 12 years old set him on the path for a history-making career. “I just started recording people I knew and went from there, ” the Detroit-born Rubin, now 76, says from Los Angeles, his home since 1996. And as chronicled in his new, self-published memoi...…
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 57 — at the time or future — musicians and other clients, but being a part of Frey’s early music career is among the best of his recurring stories. “Glenn was friends with a lot of my friends, and a lot of these guys were in bands, ” Rubin recalls. “Glenn and I just became good friends. He’ d come over and go in the laundry room with my sister and make out. ” Others who crossed paths with Rubin and Pioneer included...…
…58 | APRIL 6 • 2023 TERRORISTS OR HEROES? GREASE, THE PREQUEL, NEWMAN’S NATURAL PRESERVATIVE The indie film How to Blow Up a Pipeline opens in theaters on Thursday, April 7. OK, I know most of you are not going to rush out to a theater to see a smallish budget film. You should, however, put it on your “should stream in the future” list. How To got good advance reviews by respected critics following film festival showings. How...…
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 59 SINGER PERFORMS 8 PM, APRIL 7 Susan Werner will be at The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor. Over the course of her 25-year touring career, Werner has built a reputation as one of the country’s most compelling live performers. Tickets: $25, $33, $50. Info: theark.org. WHO KNOWS ONE? 10-11:30 AM, APRIL 8 Come explore Passover by the Number with Adat Shalom clergy and educators to find out what’s beyond the Ten ...…
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…62 | APRIL 6 • 2023 continued on page 64 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY DR. FREDDIE AVERBUCH, 84, of Naples, Fla., died March 22, 2023. Dr. Averbuch was born and schooled in Detroit. He graduated from Mumford High School (1956), Wayne State University (1959) and with a medical degree from Wayne State University College of Medicine (1963). He completed an internship at Sinai Hospital in Detroit (1964) and a four-year resi- denc...…
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 63 S andy Schwartz, 79, of Franklin, a positive force who devoted her life to family, friends and philanthropy, died Sunday, March 26, 2023, after living with and above cancer for 45 years. Born Dec. 23, 1943, to Herbert and Jeanette Goldberg, Sandy grew up in Norfolk, Va., in an intimate, vibrant Jewish community, where her parents owned hardware and women’s clothing businesses. In nursery school, Sandy and...…
…64 | APRIL 6 • 2023 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY of the late Gertie Grossman; the treasured brother of his late sib- lings, Evelyn and Harold Cantor, Rose and Louis Rosenfeld, Sam and Charlotte Grossman, Zella and Paul Daughterty, and Daniel and Sandy Grossman; the dear brother-in-law of the late Moe Betman and the late Larry Nedelman; and the devoted son of the late Harry and the late Laura Grossman. Interment was at Adat Shalom ...…
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 65 Glatter, Fishman, Rottenberg and Weston families. Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Nature Conservancy, 101 E. Grand River Ave., Lansing, MI 48906, nature. org/?redirect=https-301; Humane Society of the United States, 1255 23rd St. NW , Suite 450, Washington, DC 20037, humanesoci- ety.org; or Chabad, 32000 Middlebelt Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334, chabad. org. Arrangeme...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 66 | APRIL 6 • 2023 RICHARD ROSENBAUM, 70, of Bloomfield Hills, died March 25, 2023. He is sur- vived by his wife of 39 years, Lisa Rosenbaum; sons and daughters-in-law, Jared and Stephanie Rosenbaum, Dr. Eric and Julie Rosenbaum; brothers and sisters-in- law, Robert and Ingrid Rosenbaum, Edward and Sandy Rosenbaum; sister, Carol Pollack; grandchil- dren, Alexis Rosenbaum, Emily Rosenbaum, Simon R...…
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 67 48076; or American Heart Association, Memorial & Tribute Lockbox, 3816 Paysphere Circle, Chicago, IL 60674. A graveside service was held at Clover Hill Park in Birmingham. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. SUZANNE SUGAR, 80, of West Bloomfield, died March 26, 2023. She was born in Portland, Ore., and grew up in Detroit. Sue graduated from Mumford High School (1960) and the University of Michigan (1964)...…
…68 | APRIL 6 • 2023 Elisha Cooper, Joshua Cooper, Spencer Waldshan, Lily Waldshan, Ezra Ashkenazi; many nieces, nephews, cousins and many lifelong friends. Mr. Waldshan was the loving son of the late Benjamin and the late Teybel Waldshan; cherished brother of the late Hinda Waldshan, the late Mindel Waldshan; dear brother-in-law of the late Minnie and the late Sam Berman; dear son-in-law of the late Ethel and the late Simon Be...…
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 69 J erry Green, a legendary sportswriter in Michigan, first at the Associated Press and later at The Detroit News, who was the only reporter to cover each of the first 56 Super Bowls, died on March 23, 2023. He was 94. In February 2020, Green officially became the last reporter to see all of the Super Bowls, having outlasted Jerry Izenberg, a retired sports columnist for the Newark Star-Ledger. Green announc...…
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…8 | APRIL 6 • 2023 PURELY COMMENTARY continued on page 10 statement from Serling Institute Serling Institute Supports Israeli Democracy T he Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel at Michigan State University supports Israel’s democracy and stands with those who were peacefully protesting Prime Minister Netanyahu’s efforts to pass legislation that will eliminate the ability of the High Court to act as a check ...…
…APRIL 6 • 2023 | 9 her pithy aphorisms, such as, “Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us. ” It’s a privilege to be a woman in Israel today. Women have succeeded at all levels of Israeli society. Two stunning recent examples are Ada Yonath, a scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009, and Dorit Beinisch, who served as the ninth president of Israel’s Supreme Court from 2006-2012. PURS...…
